diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 82a16fb..7987fe7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ node_modules
 composer.lock
 phpunit.xml
 ascribe/assets/dist
+package-lock.json
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c26baae..25ebc50 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,15 +2,13 @@
 
 > WordPress theme for ascribe's landing page and blog
 
-[ ![Codeship Status for ascribe/wp-theme](https://codeship.com/projects/33c7d280-cf2d-0133-1c09-5ed74b30bb55/status?branch=master)](https://codeship.com/projects/141150)
-
 ## Prerequisites
 
 - node & npm
 - composer
 
 ```bash
-npm install && composer
+npm i && composer install
 ```
 
 ## Development
@@ -31,27 +29,28 @@ The following compiles css & js files only:
 gulp build
 ```
 
-## Deployment: Continuous Delivery
+## Deployment
 
-The theme under `ascribe/` gets built & deployed automatically via Codeship under the following conditions:
+Deployment happens via rsync'ing the theme folder `./ascribe/` over SSH, as defined in the [deployment script](deploy.sh).
 
-- every push builds the site
-- every push to the master branch initiates a live deployment
-
-Deployment happens via rsync'ing the theme build artifacts as defined in the [deployment script](_ci/deploy.sh):
+If you have SSH access to the server, you can do a deployment by calling the deployment script:
 
 ```bash
-sudo rsync --recursive --delete --delete-excluded --checksum --verbose -e "ssh" $DEPLOY_SRC $DEPLOY_USER@$DEPLOY_HOST:$DEPLOY_PATH
+# do a fresh build of the CSS & JS
+gulp build
+
+# Then deploy
+./deploy.sh
 ```
 
-The [deployment script](_ci/deploy.sh) requires the following environment variables to be set in Codeship:
+It requires the following environment variables to be defined, which is done in the deployment script:
 
 variable | description
 ---|---
-`$DEPLOY_SRC` | source of CI build artifacts. On Codeship this is usually just relative to cloned repo path, so `ascribe/`
-`$DEPLOY_USER` | user for connecting to deploy server
-`$DEPLOY_HOST` | hostname of deploy server
-`$DEPLOY_PATH` | path to deploy into on the server, should be `PATH_ON_SERVER/wp-content/themes/`
+`$ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_SRC` | source of CI build artifacts. On Codeship this is usually just relative to cloned repo path, so `ascribe/`
+`$ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_USER` | user for connecting to deploy server
+`$ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_HOST` | hostname of deploy server
+`$ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_PATH` | path to deploy into on the server, should be `PATH_ON_SERVER/wp-content/themes/`
 
 ## Server documentation
 
@@ -59,6 +58,6 @@ Site is hosted on an AWS EC2 instance with WordPress running on nginx.
 
 Option | Server path
 ---|---
-Host | `ec2-52-29-65-193.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com`
+Host | `ec2-52-57-166-130.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com`
 WordPress installation | `/var/www/ascribe-wp/`
 Active theme | `/var/www/ascribe-wp/wp-content/themes/ascribe/`
diff --git a/_ci/build.sh b/_ci/build.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 38956eb..0000000
--- a/_ci/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -e;
-
-gulp build
-
-exit;
diff --git a/_ci/deploy.sh b/_ci/deploy.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 41934a2..0000000
--- a/_ci/deploy.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# $DEPLOY_SRC = ~/src/github.com/ascribe/wp-theme/ascribe/
-
-set -e;
-
-if [ $CI_BRANCH == "master" ]; then
-    rsync --recursive --delete --delete-excluded --checksum --verbose -e "ssh" $DEPLOY_SRC $DEPLOY_USER@$DEPLOY_HOST:$DEPLOY_PATH
-fi;
-
-exit;
diff --git a/_ci/setup.sh b/_ci/setup.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index d14441c..0000000
--- a/_ci/setup.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -e;
-
-npm install gulp -g
-npm install
-
-exit;
diff --git a/deploy.sh b/deploy.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4f0b704
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_SRC="./ascribe"
+ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_USER="ubuntu"
+ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_HOST="ec2-52-57-166-130.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com"
+ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_PATH="/var/www/ascribe-wp/wp-content/themes"
+
+set -e;
+
+rsync \
+    --recursive \
+    --delete \
+    --delete-excluded \
+    --checksum \
+    --verbose \
+    --rsync-path="sudo rsync" \
+    -e "ssh" \
+    $ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_SRC $ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_USER@$ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_HOST:$ASCRIBE_DEPLOY_PATH
+
+exit;